1 Thessalonians 2:9

Paul's Approach To Ministry In Thessalonica

⁸ Longing for you in this way, we determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls, because you had become dear to us. ⁹ For you remember, brothers, our labor and hardship: working by night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. ¹⁰ You [are] witnesses, and [so is] God, how devoutly and righteously and blamelessly we became to you who believe,

Day and Night

Good News

Gospel of God

Night and Day

Preached the Gospel

Preaching the Gospel

No

Acts 18:3

And because [he] was practicing the same trade, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

2 Corinthians 11:9

And [when I] was present with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep [myself from being a burden].

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and they took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels. Also, their servants controlled the people, but I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 5:18

Now what was prepared each day for me was one ox, six choice sheep, and birds. And every ten days all [kinds of] wine were made. But for this I did not demand the food [allowance] of the governor because the slavery was too heavy on this people.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My vigor was changed into [the] dry heat of summer. Selah

Psalm 88:1

O Yahweh, God of my salvation, I cry out by day [and] through the night before you.

Jeremiah 9:1

{Oh that my head were waters}, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night, [for] the slain of the daughter of my people.

Luke 2:37

and herself [as] a widow up to eighty-four years) who did not depart from the temple with fastings and prayers, serving night and day.

Luke 18:7

And will not God surely {see to it that justice is done} to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, and will he delay toward them?

Acts 20:24

But I consider [my] life [as] worth {nothing} to myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify [to] the gospel of the grace of God.

Acts 20:31

Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day [for] three years I did not stop warning each one [of you] with tears.

Acts 20:34-35

You yourselves know that these hands served [to meet] my needs and [the needs of] those who were with me.

Romans 1:1

Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called [to be] an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

Romans 15:16

with the result that I am a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving the gospel of God as a priest, in order that the offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:19

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and [traveling] around as far as Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

1 Corinthians 4:12

and we toil, working with our own hands. [When we are] reviled, we bless; [when we are] persecuted, we endure;

1 Corinthians 9:6-7

Or do only I and Barnabas not have the right {to refrain from working}?

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have not made use of any of these [rights]. And I am not writing these [things] in order that it may be thus with me. For [it would be] better to me rather to die than [for] anyone to deprive me of my reason for boasting.

1 Corinthians 9:18

What then is my reward? That [when I] proclaim the gospel, I may offer the gospel free of charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

2 Corinthians 6:5

in beatings, in prisons, in disturbances, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in going hungry,

2 Corinthians 12:13-14

{For in what respect are you made worse off} more than the rest of the churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

Philippians 4:16

because even in Thessalonica {on more than one occasion} you sent for my need.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

[because we] remember your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

1 Thessalonians 2:2

but [after we] had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, just as you know, we had the courage in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much opposition.

1 Thessalonians 2:6

nor seeking glory from people, neither from you nor from others.

1 Thessalonians 3:10

night and day praying beyond all measure that [we] may see your face and complete what is lacking in your faith?

2 Thessalonians 3:7-9

For you yourselves know how it is necessary to imitate us, that we did not behave irresponsibly among you,

1 Timothy 1:11

according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God that I was entrusted with.

1 Timothy 4:10

For to this [end] we labor and suffer reproach, because we have put our hope in [the] living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

1 Timothy 5:5

But the widow [who is one] truly, and is left alone, has put her hope in God and continues in her petitions and prayers night and day.

2 Timothy 1:3

{I am thankful} to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience {as my ancestors did}, when {I remember you constantly} in my prayers night and day,